Diets
Plant eaters
What are herbivores?
A process plants go through to create food
What is photosynthesis?
Intersecting food chains that that all rely on the Sun
What are food webs?
A chain of energy that all relies on the Sun
What are food chains?
Omnivores
What are organisms that eat both plants and animals?
Glucose, also known as sugar
What is the food created by a plant through photosynthesis?
The sun
Where do all food webs start?
Decomposers
What starts food chains?
Organisms that eat decaying materials and release it back into the Earth
What are decomposers?
Carbon dioxide and water
What do plants take in and require for photosynthesis?
Beetles, fungi and bacteria
What are decomposers?
Grass, grasshopper, frog, python, eagle
Animals that eat only meat
What are carnivores?
Plants make their own food, while also cleaning the air, taking in harmful carbon dioxide and producing oxygen
How is photosynthesis important to the environment? (answers vary)
Owls, lions, hawks, eagles, coyotes, and foxes
What are apex predators?
An animal that relies on other animals or plants for its energy
What is a consumer?
An organism that has to eat other organisms to survive
What is a consumer?
What do plants let out during photosynthesis?
Trees, grass, flowers, wheat, barley, vegetables
What are producers?
One outlines how energy is transferred in a simple way, while the other shows all the transfers of energy in a whole ecosystem.
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?